When Weapons launched earlier this summer time most of us set free a collective “Holy shit!” It felt like we had been lastly getting the unique horror film that we’d been begging for. And given how good Zach Cregger’s first movie Barbarian was, it actually felt like we might have discovered a brand new unique voice within the style. So it was a little bit of a disappointment to seek out out that Cregger’s subsequent movie can be an entry within the Resident Evil Franchise. To not say that he couldn’t knock it out of the park, but it surely’s arduous to listen to that he’s not doing one thing unique subsequent. However he says fret not! As his new interpretation apparently “feels in-line with my sensibility, has my sense of tone.”
Cregger has nonetheless been doing the press rounds for Weapons, and a few extra data dropped relating to his Resident Evil when talking with Double Toasted. He assured recreation followers that, regardless of it not following characters from the video games, it’s going to nonetheless really feel like a Resident Evil story. “All I can say is that it is true to the experience of the games,” he stated. “It takes place in the world of the games, but most importantly the journey you’ll have as a viewer of watching this movie is going to be similar to the journey you have as a player when you play these games. And what that means is it follows one protagonist from point A to point B as they just descend deeper and deeper and deeper into hell.”
He additionally acquired into what tone his film can be going for, which appears to additional exhibit his expertise with the sport franchise itself, which ought to come as a aid to followers, “It probably lives more in the world of 2 and 3, but I’d say it adheres more to the tone of 4,” he stated. “But you know, the thing about the games is that the game franchise itself is incredibly malleable. 2 and 3 take place in Raccoon City, and then 4 takes place in Spain, and it feels like it’s in the past even though it’s not. And then 7 is like a Texas Chainsaw kind of a thing. And then 8 is like some ancient European village and definitely in the past….So, the games don’t even have some sort of a set lore. It’s not rigid. And so I don’t think I’m taking any more liberties with this than the game franchise does at all. So I’m coloring within the lines.”
Lastly, he did admit that he’d by no means watched the Milla Jovovich movies or the reboot Welcome to Raccoon Metropolis (one thing I want I might say myself). “I’m a huge fan of the games,” Cregger stated. “Now, I’ve never seen a Resident Evil movie. I imagine that if there are people out there that are just rabid fans of the movie franchise, they’re probably not really prepared for what I’m going to be doing. But I think the people that are fans of the games are probably going to be stoked.”
Whereas I actually want that we had been getting a completely unique movie from Cregger, it does sound just like the Resident Evil franchise is lastly in good fingers. Right here’s hoping he can revitalize the property and provides us the large display Resident Evil movie that followers have been hoping for.
